Reviews

[Adrian]

Reviews

Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/catpower/youarefree/)

All Music Guide (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A6x2tk6gxtkrk)
Analog Roam (http://www.artandlies.com/analog_roam/archives/000192.html)
Austin Chronicle (http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-03-07/music_phases.html)
Beat Magazine (http://www.beat.com.au/beatalbums.shtml)
Bleed Music (http://www.bleed-music.com/new/story.asp?ID=1423)
Boston.com (http://ae.boston.com/music/newondisc/reviews/cat_power.html)
Brainwashed (http://www.brainwashed.com/brain/brainv06i08.html)
Chicago Sun-Times (http://www.suntimes.com/output/rock/sho-sunday-spin02.html)
Church for Me (http://cookham.blogspot.com/2003_03_16_cookham_archive.html#90844778)
Coke Machine Glow (http://www.cokemachineglow.com/scott/music/reviews/catpower_youarefree2003.html)
The Declaration (http://www.the-declaration.com/index.php?issuedate=2003-02-20&showarticle=26)
Delusions of Adequacy (http://www.adequacy.net/reviews/c/catpower.shtml)
Deo2 (http://www.deo2.com/pop/default.asp?id=1931)
Drowned In Sound (http://www.drownedinsound.com/article.php?id=5969)
Dusted Magazine (http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/559)
Eye Weekly (http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_02.13.03/music/ondisc.html)
Exclaim (http://www.exclaim.ca/index.asp?layid=23&csid1=7313)
Fake Jazz (http://www.fakejazz.com/reviews/2003/catpower.shtml)
Flack Magazine (http://www.flakmag.com/music/catpower.html)
Glorious Noise (http://www.gloriousnoise.com/arch/000790.php)
Hi-Lo Tunez (http://www.hilotunez.com/beats/CAT%20POWER/CAT%20POWER.htm)
Junkmedia (http://www.junkmedia.org/?i=522)
Launch (http://launch.yahoo.com/read/album.asp?contentID=212305)
Lost At Sea (http://lostatsea.net/LAS/archives/reviews/records/catpower.htm)
Minneapolis City Pages (http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1158/article11057.asp)
Nashville Scene (http://www.nashscene.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?story=This_Week:Arts:Records)
Neumu (http://www.neumu.net/fortyfour/2003/2003-00031/2003-00031_fortyfour.shtml)
Now Toronto (http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2003-02-13/music_discs2.php)
The Onion AV Club (http://www.theonionavclub.com/reviews/music/music_c/catpower02.html)
Orange County Register (http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=30998)
Oregon Daily Emerald (http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/02/20/3e550fc9e2811)
Pitchfork Media (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/c/cat-power/you-are-free.shtml)
Playboy (http://www.playboy.com/arts-entertainment/music/catpower/)
Playlouder (http://www.playlouder.com/review/703catpower.html)
Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/cd/review.asp?aid=2045543)
Salon (http://www.salon.com/audio/music/2003/02/18/cat_power/)
Piero Scaruffi (http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/catpower.html#you)
The Scotsman (http://entertainment.scotsman.com/music/reviews_specific.cfm?id=8192&g=rockpop&p=y)
Shaking Through (http://www.shakingthrough.net/music/reviews/2003/cat_power_you_are_free_2003.html)
Slatch (http://www.slatch.com/review/?archive/2003_02.php#002272)
Southside Callbox (http://southsidecallbox.com/you_are_free.html)
Splendid Zine (http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=3253414323107483)
Stylus Magazine (http://www.stylusmagazine.com/musicreviews/cat_power-you_are_free.shtml)
Tiny Mix Tapes Gone To Heaven (http://www.angelfire.com/indie/tinymixtapes/albumreviews/c/cat_power.htm)
Trouser Press (http://www.trouserpress.com/entry_90s.php?a=cat_power)
Village Voice (http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0311/pearse.php)
We Are Nameless (http://www.webzinenameless.net/chroniques/chronique.pl?20030202170406) (french)
Wired (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/play.html?pg=8)


Show reviews

Billboard (http://www.billboard.com/billboard/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1839195) (SXSW)
New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/70066.htm) (Irving Plaza show)
New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/arts/music/11CAT.html?ex=1048050000&en=1a52a6418f590643&ei=5062) (Irving Plaza show)
Paste Magazine (http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=119) (Laga, Pittsburgh, 3/6/2003 show)
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16773-2003Mar23.html) (9.30, DC, 3/22/2003)


Stories

Google News (http://news.google.com/news?q=%22cat+power%22&scoring=d)

The Age (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/19/1045638362781.html)
Albuquerque Tribune (http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/diversions03/021403_diversions_cat.shtml)
Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/096/living/From_weakness_she_draws_power+.shtml)
Christian Science Report (http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0307/p20s02-almp.html)
Edmonton Journal (http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/story.asp?id=%7BBC2C9146-357A-455B-97F1-ECA93EDCF49F%7D)
Entertainment Weekly (http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,417928~4~0~iscatpowerprescient,00.html)
Gästeliste (http://www.gaesteliste.de/texte/show.html?_nr=590) (german)
Japan Times (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fm20030126st.htm)
Libération (http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=89473) (french)
Mansfield News Journal (http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/news/stories/20030304/localnews/1102922.html)
MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.com/news/875707.asp) (Newsweek)
Neumu (http://neumu.net/datastream/2003/2003-00026/2003-00026_datastream.shtml)
New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/55064.htm)
Nude As The News (http://www.nudeasthenews.com/interviews/57)
Pitchfork Media (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/interviews/c/cat-power-03)
Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=17606)
San Francisco Bay Guardian (http://www.sfbayguardian.com/37/21/cover_cat.html)
SF Weekly (http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2003-02-26/music.html/1/index.html)
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27894-2003Feb18.html)
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43820-2003Apr6.html) (Pre-show interview/story)

(I'll just add new reviews and stories posted to this thread so they're clickable and stuff.)

[johansen smith]

http://lostatsea.net/LAS/archives/reviews/records/catpower.htm

an undeniable rave.

[johansen smith]

http://www.nudeasthenews.com/interviews/57

and a pretty interesting interview here.

[Adrian]

I added those links to the list - hope that's okay.

[Timothompson]

The Rolling Stone review has moved or something:

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/cd/review.asp?aid=2045543

[Adrian]

Looks like i forgot a digit there - anyway, it works now. Thanks!

[1,100 Words]

Junkmedia review the record from the comforts of a sickbed...

http://www.junkmedia.org/?i=522

[Smolenski]

This reviewer (http://www.shakingthrough.net/music/reviews/2003/cat_power_you_are_free_2003.html) likes Chan, but apparently has a real problem with the "Grunge" influence on the album.

[johansen smith]

...that noisy racket

did my GrandMother write this review?

[amazonida]

http://www.theonionavclub.com/

deserves mentioning cuz this was where the Vedder participation was first confirmed (I think), by the very guy

[Adrian]

(updated the list.)

[Adrian]

Whoa - great interview over at Pitchfork (http://pitchforkmedia.com/interviews/c/cat-power-03/).

[einzack]

don't see this one on the list.
http://www.fakejazz.com/reviews/2003/catpower.shtml

[Timothompson]

Church of Me (http://cookham.blogspot.com/2003_03_16_cookham_archive.html#90844778)

[digitalis]

Mine, at FlakMag:

http://www.flakmag.com/music/catpower.html

[Adrian]

Touring pays off, publicity-wise, i guess - more mainstream coverage:

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/096/living/From_weakness_she_draws_power+.shtml
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43820-2003Apr6.html